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Application led detoberfgetw rSerial No. Waal?.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, Aaron MENDELsoN and SHEPARD J. GOLDBERG, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of N ew York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cigarette-Box, of which the following is a full,

prove the structure of such boxes in a device` aving closures at its opposed edges and a plurality of spaced compartments communieating with each edge arranged alternatively and being of such length as to permit the cigarettes to project therefrom to be readily grasped and withdrawn, while the closures envelop said projecting portions when in closed positions and thereby prevent the cig arettes or articles from being broken.

With the above and other objects in View the invention resides more particularly in the peculiar combination and arrangement of parts which will be illustrated as a pre-l ferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings and described in the specication.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speci' iication, in which similar characters of reerence indicate corresponding partsin all the views, 'and in which* Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved cigarette box with one-of the closures in an open position; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the box, the same being in a closed position; and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig.'2.

As shown in the drawings, the improved box is made up of a blank bent to form a rectangular body 5, which is relatively flat and elongated and open at its top and bottom edges. This body is provided with a front portion 6, a back portion 7 and end walls 8 and 9, while contained Within the body is a substantially zig-zag member 10 \made from a continuous strip bent in the form specified and producing a series of partitions l1 providing compartments alternatively opening at the top and bottom of the box. These partitions are provided with end portions 12 forming end walls or bottoms for the respective compartments, and

as 'shown in the drawings the continuous stri bent to'v form the zig-zag member embodies the partitions 11 and the end portions 12, so that an equal number or coml partments open at the top and bottom portions of the box.

The cigarettes, which are indicated by the numeral 18, when disposed in the respective compartments as ,shown in the drawings, will project therefrom so as to be readily grasped and removed, it being observed that the cigarettes' are disposed in spaced re,- lation. ln order to inclose the projected portions of the cigarettes so as to coperate with the trietional engagement thereof withl in the compartments, the' top and bottom portions of the box are provided with closure caps le each consisting of a back portion 15 and an edge portion 16 disposed at right angles thereto and closed at the ends to project' beyond the point of pivotal attachment 17 while the'front portion 18 of each closure is preferably provided with a convex edge portion so as to overlie the adjacent front or rear wall of the box body. As the ends of the cigarettes do not contact with the edge portions of the closures, the arc traversed by said edge portions will permit them to escape the edge of the cigarettes and thereby not mutilate the same, while the ends of said closures will overlie the ends and the main walls of the body of the box, respectivelyu Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A cigarette box consisting of an elongated flat body, partitions in said body providing compartments having alternatively `closed ends and similarly arranged open ends terininating at the top and bottom edges of the body, whereby the compartments opening in the saire direction are spaced apart, whereby when cigarettes are disposed in said compartments they will project therefrom, and closures at the edge portions ofthe body adjaoent to the ends of the compartments, each names to this specification in the presence of i closure embodying a, back portion, an edge two subscribing Witnesses.

portion end portions and a. front portion I said end portions and front portion being DGESTRG 5 designed to overlie the ends and a Wall of the box body and to receive the projecting Witnesses: portions of the cigarettes. JOHN E. BURCH,

in testimony whereof We have signed our PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs. 

